4 papers
Active-Sterile Neutrino Conversion: Consequences for the r-Process and Supernova Neutrino Detection
J. Fetter, G. C. McLaughlin, A. B. Balantekin +1
We examine active-sterile neutrino conversion in the late time post-core-bounce supernova environment. By including the effect of feedback on the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW)…
An Active-Sterile Neutrino Transformation Solution for r-Process Nucleosynthesis
G. C. McLaughlin, J. M. Fetter, A. B. Balantekin +1
We discuss how matter-enhanced active-sterile neutrino transformation in both neutrino and antineutrino channels could enable the production of the rapid neutron capture (r-process…
Matter-Enhanced Neutrino Oscillations in the Quasi-Adiabatic Limit
A. B. Balantekin, J. F. Beacom, J. M. Fetter
We introduce simple analytic expressions for the neutrino survival probability in media valid in the quasi-adiabatic limit. These expressions provide a quick but accurate alternati…
The MSW effect in a fluctuating matter density
A. B. Balantekin, J. M. Fetter, F. N. Loreti
We consider the effect on matter-enhanced neutrino flavor transformation of a randomly fluctuating, delta-correlated matter density. The fluctuations will produce a distribution of…